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vase with dolphin decoration
Pottery:
Doulton & Co.
Decorator:
Simmance, Eliza
Decorator's assistant:
Hurst, Jane
(Possibly)
Decorator's assistant:
Hawkins, Ethel
(Possibly)
Glazed stoneware vase, decorated under-glaze in blue, brown and green on a white slip ground.
Thrown stoneware, coated with white slip, painted in blue, green and brown, and covered with a transparent glaze. The vase is barrel shaped, slightly tapering to a short flaring neck. The upper and lower body and inside and outside of the neck are painted with thinly applied under-glaze blue, giving a blue/green watery appearance. Around the middle of the body is a 13cm high panel, edged with applied clay beading interspersed with tiny shells and filled with a painted design of six blue dolphins swimming amid green seaweed, all on a pinkish-white ground. The underside is flat and unglazed, with an 8.5cm diameter turned foot-ring.
History note: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Purchased from Richard Dennis, 144 Kensington Church Street, London, W. 8
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Diameter: 15.0 cm
Diameter: 5.9 in
Height: 26.5 cm
Height: 10.5 in
Method of acquisition: Given (1971-10-14) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
20th Century, Early
Edwardian
Production date:
AD 1910
Doulton and Co, founded c.1815, originally made utility ceramics, with some stoneware jugs and ornamental bottles. Henry Doulton introduced decorative stoneware and architectural terracotta at Lambeth in the mid 1860s; over the next 50 years, he employed some 400 artists, many of them Lambeth School of Art students. Doulton championed individuality, innovation and versatility, and his modellers and decorators used a wide range of techniques and decorative treatments in producing both unique, artist-signed, and limited edition pieces. From 1872 the business expanded into faience and in the 1880s opened a factory at Burslem, Staffordshire, where bone china and other wares were made. In 1901, Edward VII granted the Royal warrant to the factory. Stoneware production at Lambeth reduced after 1914, and ceased in 1956.
Eliza Simmance worked for Doulton’s from 1873 until 1928. She used a variety of decorating techniques, often combining two or three of them in a single pot. She is particularly known for her finely incised and pate-sur-pate decoration, where several layers of slip are applied with a brush to build up a raised design. John Sparkes, Head of Lambeth School of Art, found her ‘first amongst those who have thrown their whole energy into their work […with] so many ideas to spare’, and her work ‘so eminently graceful and well drawn as to emulate […] the work of the Italian ornamentists’ (quoted in Eyre (1975), p.105). She was often assisted by younger artists.
Decoration composed of oxide colours ( blue, green, brown)
Throwing
: Salt-glazed stoneware vase, painted in blue, brown and green on a white slip
Salt-glazing
Inscription present: Doulton Seal with crown and lion above circular seal
Inscription present: date stamp for 1910
Inscription present: impressed using two letter stamps
Accession number: C.10-1971
Primary reference Number: 71164
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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